Gdalia
Efron, b. abt. 1822 [RS012; RS013], died probably before 1865, married
Pesya, b. abt 1822 [RS013]. In 1850,
Gdalia lived with his wife and sons, “Mortheym” (Motte) and Yankel, and his
brother David in the agricultural colony Moysevo in the Kurilovichi
subdistrict, Slonim district [RS013]. Gdalia moved
to the colony from Amdur in 1850. [RS012]

The
fourth son of Motte Tsinas [Gdalia], had two sons: Motte and
Yankel. [GEN029-SD]

Kurilovichi
(Kurilovice) is located on the road from Mosty to Slonim, closer to Mosty. It
is directly east of and close to Pieski and not too far from, Zaludok
(southwest of it). It is very close to the small town Lancavicy.

He
had two known children:

Motte

Yankel,
known as Yankel der Shenker.

Amos Krasnitzki
told Lunna researcher Ruth Marcus that his mother Sima (Efron) was a cousin of
Yitzchak Efron, son of Meir. Yitzchak Efron emigrated from Lunna and settled in
1913 in Palestine. [INT012]

Based
on Ruth Marcus’ information from Amos Krasnitzki [INT012], I determined
that the entry I had of “Sh’mo Mesha”, son of Shalom Shacne should actually be
Shmuel Moshe, brother – not son -- of Shalom Shacne. More importantly, if Sima
Krasnitski was a cousin of Yitzchak Efron then the “Mordecai Efron” they both
have as a grandfather is one in the same person. Based on this, two branches
have been joined as related – the branch formerly identified as “Motte Efron,
father of Shalom Shacne Gross-Efron of Kaminka and Meir of Lunna,“ and, the
branch formerly identified as “Gdalia, son of Motte Tsinne’s.”

Motte
Efron, b. 1823 [RS013], probably Ros,
married to Esther Reizel Mikhalovski (Mikhaloski?). [MAR105]. He was from
Ros [INT015]. Motte’s mother lived to be 105 years
old (see below) (or was it his wife? Unlikely to be his wife, as that would
have her dying around 1950, which would have likely been known, especially
because she would have survived the Holocaust). It was previously thought that
he was married to “Fruma.” When Abram Ezra was married, they were living in
Simnas.

Their
five known children are:

Shalom
Shacne Gross-Efron

Shmuel
(Shimon?) Moshe

Gedalia

Meir

Avrom
Ezra.

From
Gdalia Efron, son of Leib of Kaminka, came the information that the father of
Shacne was Motte, and that the children of Shacne included Simcha, Lazar, Leib,
BenZion, Ruben, Udes and Dovka. (Note the similarity here with the names of the
children of Yosef Nachum of Lunna.) He said that there were two brothers and a
sister from Jaludek [Zheloduk?]. He said that there was a brother of Shacne who
had a son with a cement factory in Israel. Based on that information, the
family of Meir of Lunna (married to Goldin) has been joined as a son of
Shalom-Shacne. There were altogether about 15 or more children of Shacne, but
many died at Auschwitz with their families.

Dobke
Zuckerman Cohen told her daughter Ilene Marko that the name was originally
Gross-Effron.

Shalom
Shacne of Kaminka, son of Motte, son of Gdalia Motte Tsinne’s

His
nine known children were:

Moshe

Rivka

Benjamin
“Bennie” (BenZion)

Dore
(Dobke) Zuckerman

Julia
(Yudes) Odess

Leib

Rubin

Lazar

Simcha

Malka

According
to Mark Odess there were ten children, but several of them did not come to the
US and were killed in the Holocaust. Gdalia, son of Leib, said the children
included: Simcha, Lazar, Leib, BenZion, Ruben, Udes and Dovka

Another
possible child is Yakov Efron, based on the Yad Vashem entry for his son,
Yeshayahu Shakhna Efron. Yakov might be the son of another Efron from Kaminka –
this has not yet been determined. This Yakov’s wife was Khana [YAD172].

Shalom Shacne Efron, b. approx. 1862 or
1870, d. age 69 in Aushwitz, married to Alta or Chae Peshe. His name is given
as “Charlie” on the marriage certificate of Julia. Her name is Altie Czersky,
according to Benjamin’s marriage certificate, and Ida Pescher according to the
marriage record of Julia. Mark Odess recalls his grandmother speaking of a
large family, affluent, who lived in the south, maybe in Atlanta, and had a big
dept. store (Morgel's??). This suggests a relation to the Chatanooga family.
Many members of the family are referred to as “Gross-Effron” in immigration
records.

Mark Odess recalls that the chicken
[turkey?] farm in Poughkeepsie (area) was called "Empire Chicken."

Shacne had hide & grain stores/shoe
factories in various towns. Something like 100 or 150 individuals from the
family were killed in Aushwitz (per Gdalia) according to some family members.
Shacne was one of many siblings.

Shacne's mother was Fruma, who died at
the age of 105, when she had a broken leg; at that time Shacne was the only
surviving child, and so he received "the keys" to the shop. He lived
in the District of Grodno in 1906 and 1907 [VOT031]

The “Gross” in Gross-Efron could be the
name of Shacne’s wife’s family. It might also be a nick name, since its
meaning is “big.” It is said that they were short people (“big” being used
facetiously), or it was such a large family they were called this. The actual
source of the name “Gross” is not known. There was a family named Gross
(“Grous”) in Amdur, but it is not known if there is any connection. [RS Amdur--]

> Moshe,
b. Ostrin, Szczuczyn, Nowogrodek, abt. 1882 or 1894, d. abt. 1942, Auschwitz [YAD128; YAD131], married
Rachela or Rakhel Schwarzberg (or Shvartzbard [YAD128] or Shwarzburd
[YAD129]), b. Ostrin
1884 or 1896, d. abt. 1942, Holocaust. [YAD129; YAD132] In 1908 I a
directory of homeowners in Alytus Kalvarija, Suwalk Gubernia, Moshe is listed
as “Grous Efron,” on Kalvariskaya Street. [DIR077] They lived in
Ostrin. He was a glazer [YAD128]. This branch
of the family is based in part on the record of internment at Auschvitz for
Abram Efron. [YAD cite? VERIFY]. Pages of Testimony [YAD128
thru YAD132]
appear to match up with this branch, except that they state that Moshe’s
parents are Yitzchak and Khana. This discrepancy needs to be resolved.
Nevertheless, those entries have been tentatively incorporated here. Her
parents are Tzvi Hirsh and Sara Lea [cite?].

> > Shloma,
b. abt. 1899, married in Kovno 3/26/1925 to Etta Shapiro, b. 1897. She was the
daughter of Moshe and Chaia of Kedainai. Shloma is added here as a son solely
due to the Luthianian marriage entry recorded in JewishGen’s All Lithuania
database.. That record states that Shloma Gros Efron was the son of Moshe Itsok
and Leah of Alytus, and is a butcher. [MAR106] There is a
possibility that he is not a part of this branch of the Gross-Efron family.

> > Abram,
b. 4/14/1904, Ostryna, married Frume Droznin, b. abt. 1904, d. Holocaust. He
lived in Ostryna, where he was a blacksmith. Her parents were Asha and Rokhel [YAD127]. He emmigrated
to Israel.

> > Mordecai
“Max”, b. 10/10/1918 or 1917, Ostrina, d. 1992, married Golda (Zehava) Kalman.
He submitted Pages of Testimony for this family [YAD129; YAD131]. He is a
survivor of Theresienstadt. [YAD145]. According to
Mordecai’s grandson, Roy, Mordecai’s parents both were killed in the Holocaust.
[INT013]

> > Gila
Apman. She submitted a Page of Testimony for this family. [YAD128]

> > Dvora.
She survived the Holocaust.

> Rivka,
b. abt. 1888.

> Benjamin
“Bennie” (BenZion) Efron (Gross Efron), b. 9/5/1892 or 12/5/1891, Grodno, d.
3/1979, Princeton, NJ [SSDI069; NAT054-SD (with photo)],
married 7/8/1916 in NYC [MAR036-SD1-SD2; INT014] to Beckie Zaveloff
(Zarloff per marriage cert), b. 5/1/1893 or 3/7/1890, Kossovo, Grodno [CEN2053], d. 2/15/1958
[CEM094?]. Her burial
record is tentative. He arrived in the US in 1909 at NYC as Benzion Grossefron
(indexed in Ancestry as Grossefrow and Ellis Island as “Grossefrau” [ARR131]. She arrived
12/11/1906 at Philadelphia. In the 1920 census he is called “Barney.” In 1920
they lived at 231 Madison Ave., NYC, in 1916 he lived at 1350 Washington Ave.,
Bronx, and in 1941, he lives at 2185 85th St., Brooklyn. He had a
large poultry farm in New Brunswick, NJ called Orchard Farm. In 1916, he lived
at 1350 Washington Ave., Bronx. He was naturalized in 1944 while living at 1520
50th St. in Brooklyn, and she was naturalized at the same address in
1945 [NAT054-SD; NAT055]

> Dora
(Dobke) Zuckerman Cohen [~CEN20], b. approx. 1893, d. abt. 1970, NYC, married
1. NYC abt. 1913 to Harry (Harris) Zuckerman, b. 1892, Storin, Russia, d.
2/12/1921, Cleveland, OH [DEATH126]. He was a
building contractor along with many brothers in Cleveland. Dora early on lived
at 210 Madison Ave. They also lived in the Bronx, and then Brooklyn. She
arrived in 1909 at age 16 with her sister Julia [ARR141], and stayed
with her aunt for about 6 years prior to getting married. She does not appear
to be the Dora Effron who lived with Bertha Liss in 1920 because this Dora was
already married by 1920 and the one who lived with Bertha Liss was not
married., Her name was originally “Gross-Efron,” according to Mark Odess. His
parents were “Henry” and “Rose Ceralnik” of Storin. [DEATH126]

> Julia
(Yudes) (Anna) Odess, b. 1/12/1894, Kaminka, d. 11/-/1970, Brooklyn [SSDI457; ~CEN20],
married 1/4/1913 in NYC [MAR035-SD1-SD2] to Sam Odess,
b. abt. 1891. In 1913, she lived at 26 Rutgers St. He was a jeweler in 1913.
Ship arrival manifests indicate that she first came to the US in 1909 with her
sister Dora [ARR141], left, and then returned in
1911. When she re-immigrated to the US in 1911 she was coming from her father
in Kaminka and joining her sister at 210 Madison St., NY. [ARR028-SD1-SD2]

> Leib,
b. abt. 1896, Kaminka, d. 11/1942 at Treblinka, married to Miriam Goldberg. His
son Gdalia wrote a page of testimony for him. [YAD081]. Another page
of testimony is from Leib’s brother-in-law, Norman (Nakhum) A. Goldberg of
Miami Beach, FL., who also submitted pages for Leib’s children Chaim, Mordechai
and Nachum. [YAD173]

According
to Gdalia there was a cousin with a cement factory in Israel. Gdalia had found
him after the war but they did not keep up with each other. This cousin is
probably Zvi Efron or one of Zvi’s brothers, who were in the cement business.

> Rubin
Efron, b. 9/15/1896, Kaminka, d. 7/31/1969, Farragut, LI, NY [SSDI084; CEM101; Verify old
DEATH record 101; NAT064; ARR033-SD1-SD2], married 1.
6/2/1918 in Manhattan [MAR037-SD1-SD2] to Dora
(Dinah) Shecter, b. abt. 1897 or 1901, Wolno, Russia, d. 5/2/1941 [CEM045; Verify old
DEATH record 30; CEN2080]. He arr. at NY
on the Vaderland, sailing from Antwerp on 9/17/1912 as Ruwen Efron. His last
place of residence was Kaminka, where his father, Shacne, was then living. He
went to his sister Dobe at 210 Madison. Dora arrived in 1914.

They
are both aliens in 1920. In 1920 he is an operator (machine operator?) and
lives at 475 Elton St., Brooklyn. Later, from 1920 through 1922, he lives at
223 Madison. They have a boarder with them in 1920, Sam Fishman. In 1918, Rubin
lives at 207 Madison Ave. He was naturalized in 1929.

> Married
2. to Fannie (Feiga) Unknown, b. 3/31/1903, d. 3/17/1974. She was the daughter
of Zev Wolf [CEM100]. She is his wife based solely
on the fact that they are buried together and that his first wife died young.

> Lazar

> Simcha

> Malka
Goldberg, b. 1908, Kaminka, d. Treblinka Camp in the Holocaust, married to Tzvi
Arie Goldberg [YAD083]. Malka is considered a daughter
of Shacne because of the page of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem which says
she is the daughter of Khaia Efron and was born in Kaminka.

Shmuel
(Shimon?) Moshe of Kaminka and Haifa, son of Motte, son of Gdalia Motte
Tsinne’s

Shmuel
(Shimon?) Moshe (from oral history he was remembered as “Sh’mo Mesha”), b. abt.
1865, d. 1936, Haifa or d. 1/4/1936, Alytus, Lithuania [DEATH125], married Leah
Sirota, d. 1948, Haifa. [INT015] His wife ran a
lumber mill and a flour mill. The three daughters, other than Genia, were
Zionists and moved to Palestine in about the 1920s. They and their families
settled in Haifa. These three daughters were in the import/export trade. I
was told initially that “Sh’mo Mecha” was a son of Shalom Shacne, and much
later determined that he was in fact a brother. According to Amos Krasnitsky,
in fact, his name was Shimon, not Shmuel. [GEN--]

> Sima
Krasnitsky, married Ephraim Krasnitsky. They had a large family. [INT015]

According
to Ruth Marcus’s interview with Sima’s son, Sima settled in Israel and was married
to Efraim Krasnitzki. They resided in Haifa. Sima had two brothers: Shmuel and
another one.

There is a death
record of a Moshe Efron of Alytus, Lithuania. That record says that “Mausius
Efronas” was the son of Mordchelis, and therefore he probably is a son of Motte
Efron of Ros, who has descendants in Alytus – but this “Mausius” does not seem
to be the same as Shlomo Moshe. [DEATH125]

> Rochelle

> Penina.
She may be the Pnina (Efron) Jacobi of Haifa who attend memorial events for
Lunna Jewry in 1950 [GEN—(Ruth Marcus Lunna Efron summary)]

> Son.
He stayed in Russia. He was an intellectual, and was imprisoned for
some time in the Soviet Union.

> Genia "Jeanette"
Fineman, b. abt. 1910 or 1912, married Sol (Paroshkaya) Fineman, divorced. Sol
is remarried and living in Florida. Genia is the youngest. She arrived after
Sol had already immigrated to NY and re-immigrated to NY, approximately 1932
[~ARR]. They settled in New York City. Sol and Genia grew up together in the
town of Ros or Ross, which is close to Volpa and Volkovysk. According to Sol,
Genia's family came from Lunna.

Gdalia,
son of Motte, son of Gdalia Motte Tsinne’s

Gedalia,
b. approx 1866, d. after 1921. He was in the lumber business, probably run by his
wife as he was likely a talmudist. He is probably the Gedalia son of Mordecai
who is listed in the 1906 and 1907 voter lists of Grodno Gubernia. [VOT026]

He
may have settled in Jerusalem. According to emails from Yosef Sa’ar, his
Krulewich relative left Simnas before 1880. “Of the Simnas Efrons, one brother
settled in Jerusalem, now deceased I believe, and the second in Cleveland.”
The brother in Jerusalem “survived the war.”

> Fanny
(Feicha) (Feiga Rivka) (Fania) Vlosky, b. abt. 1875, Ros, Poland, d. 11/9/1945,
married abt. 1893 to Joseph (Yosel) (Yosef Tsvi) Vlosky (Wloski), b. 1871, Ros,
Poland, d. 12/11/1951 [CEN3228; ARR304-SD1-SD2]. They are
buried in Brooklyn [CEM288; CEM289]. In 1930 he
works in a paper bag factory [CEN3228]. In 1940,
Herman Vlasky and his parents live at 55 West. 164th St. Herman is
an accountant. (1940 US Census). There is an article from the 2/6/1995 digital edition
of the New Yorker about Roz, Ben, Lena and Edna (“Her mentor was Lena Vlosky, an International Ladies' Gar-
ment Workers' Union ... Her daughter, Edna, was Wendell Willkie's nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital..”)

There
was a William and Gertrude Vlosky living in NYC, as found in the 1930 census,
with a 1 year old daughter, Lorraine. [CEN3209] This William appears to be the
brother who preceded Joseph to New York. The family next store to the William
Vlosky family was Finman, including a son named Solomon, born in 1910. Might
this Solomon Finman be the same as the husband of Jeannette Fineman, above? In
addition there is a naturalization record for Gertrude Vlosky which says she
arrived as Gitla Piroszkier, 17, arriving 10/12/1923 at New York with her
brother Szmuel, 14, and father Chaim, 56. They are going to her Uncle, Max
Firiman, 520 W. 146th St., NY. Born in Kosi [legible, but may have
been “Ros” and copied incorrectly], Poland, where her mother Doba lives. This
Gertrude Vlosky was naturalized on 11/12/1940, at 1350 Clay Ave, Bronx. She was
born in Ros 12/25/1905. Husband is William, married 11/12/1924 in NY, he b. Ros
4/30/1901.

> > Benjamin
(Wolf), b. abt. 1900, Ros, d. late October, 1962, Spring Valley, married abt.
1924 to Lena Cibulsky, b. 4/5/1902, Russia, d. 2/1982, Spring Valley, NY [SSDI682]. He had two
sons who died young. In 1925 he lives in Spring Valley, next to the David
Effron family (see below) [CENMISC012], and in 1930
his young family is living with his parents and siblings. According to the 1930
census, Benjamin came to the US in 1914, then the rest of his family came in
1921. Lena came in 1918 [CEN3228]. They lived on the
Old Nyack Turnpike, and had lived in the area since around 1927. He ran the
Bondell’s Jewlery store for 15 years, prior to his death. In 1962, he was
survived by his son Marvin and his daughter Edna. [OBIT090]

One
grandchild of Benjamin seems to be Dr. Richard P. Vlosky, a Professor at LSU
and Director of the Louisianna Forest Products Development Center at the
University.

> > Julius
(Judel), b. abt. 1907, Ros. In 1930 he is a painter and is living with his
parents. [CEN3228]

> > Hyman
(Chaim), b. abt. 1913, Ros. He never married.

> > Roselyn
"Roz" Roose, b. 1914, Ros, d. 3/5/2005, New York, married Dr.
Lawrence J. Roose. She lived in Provincetown, on Cape Cod, and in New York
City. [OBIT088]

> Solomon
"Sol", b. Grodno abt. 1894, d. New York City, [ARR029; CEN3011] married abt.
1920 in U.S to Rose Unknown, b. abt 1897, Russia. In 1930 they lived in
Brooklyn. When he immigrated to the US in 1911 he was going to his aunt, E.
Friedman, in NYC.

> > Edith
D’addario, b. abt 1921, NY, d. 3/4/2007 married D’Addario. She lived in New
York City and was Executive Director of the Joffrey Ballet School. She joined
the Joffrey School in 1961. [OBIT089]

> Mendel
"Max" Efron, b. 4/15 or 4/16/1898, Grodno, d. 1/-/1975, New Rochelle
[SSDI090; ARR114; CEN3012] married abt.
1922 in U.S. to Bertha Unknown, b. 10/15/1895, 11/10/1890 or 1891, Wolozin, d.
9/1973, Fresh Meadows, Queens [SSDI064]. He arrived
8/28/1921 with sister "Cypka" on the Gdansk at NYC, both as
"Efren." He was then a hairdresser. They both last resided in Grodno,
where their relative (father) Gdalja Efren lives at 19 Grandzicka. They are
going to their brother, Sala Efren of 1384 Boston Rd., Bronx. In 1/12/1928 Max
and Bertha live at 785 Home St. On 10/2/1922 they lived at 1392 Boston Road and
in 1930 they lived in the Bronx at 3971 Gouvernors Avenue.

> Sipka
"Celia" (Cecilia) Seide, b. Grodno, 9/1/1904 or 1903, d. 7/13/1995,
Monsey, NY [SSDI300; ARR114], married abt.
1926 in U.S. to Oscar Seide, b. 2/15/03, Poland, d. 2/1969, Bronx [SSDI496; CEN3013]. They settled
in New York City. She arrived with her brother Mendel on 8/28/1921, see above.
[INT016] He was an
electrician.

> Monya,
d. Israel. His family settled in Israel. [INT016]

Meir
of Lunna/Grodno, son of Motte, son of Gdalia Motte Tsinne’s

Meir
Efron, b. abt. 1870, Grodno area, d. abt. 1917, Amdur?, married Golda Golden,
b. Lunna. Golda emmigrated from Lunna to Palestine about 1920. Golda Golden's
half-brother was Aaron, the father of Joseph Golden of West Danbury, CT, whose
wife was Eva Rivka Effron Golden (see page --). Ruth Marcus, who has researched
the families who lived in Lunna, had spoken with one of the descenda

nts
about his family history.

According
to Zvi, Yitzak’s son, Meir was a brother or a cousin to Henry Ephron of
California (see Vol. 2, Chapter 23 ) and had once visited him in California,
and has been in contact with Nora. (R. Marcus)

There
are other Goldin/Golden/Efron connections. For more information about the
Golden/in family, see p. --.

> Yitzak
(Isadore), b. 2/7/1892, Lunna or the city of Grodno , married Dvora Hurvitz. He
is the oldest child. He attended the Reali School in Grodno and came to Eretz Israel
in 1911 or 1913. He was the first child to go to Palestine. He was the managing
director of Olamit Asbestos Cement Works Ltd. For many years he was chairman of
the Colony Committee, Rosh Pinah. In 1952 he lived at 47 Hen Blvd., Tel Aviv.
He is written up in the 1952 Who's Who in Israel. [BIO -- ]. He also wrote a
book about Rosh Pina [verify-- translate and incorporate info]

Born in Luna, Grodno Gubernia, 7-Feb-1892 to his father Meir
(forests / woods trader).

His mother: Golda, daughter of Yitzhak Goldin.

Received traditional education and studies in a Russian
high school.

Occupation: forests / woods tarder

Came to Israel: 1913

Worked as agricalture worker in Yavniel, Mikveh-Israel and
moved to Rosh-Pina, recruited to work in the Turkish army.

Built an agriculture farm in Rosh-Pina and lived there.

In 1918 married to Dvorah, the daughter of Shmuel Horowitz
from Rosh-Pina.

He served for years, as the head of the commitee of
Rosh-Pina and took an active position in the public institutions in Rosh-Pina.

In 1934, he established Quarries in the Galilee area and in
1937, became to be an official constructor for the British army in the
Galilee and built some of the roads there.

During the years 1938-1944, worked in Syria and Lebanon as
an official constructor for the British army and built a network of military
roads there.

In 1947, he opened a factory "Olamit" Ltd. in
Petach-Tikva for cement and asbestos products, this factory supplied the
products all over Israel and managed to save this way, a lot of foreign
currency as those products were imported before to Israel from overseas.

Elected in 6-Jan-1955 to serve as the president of
"Hakochav" ("The star") Chamber of Bney-Brit, , in Tel
Aviv.

An active member in Bney-Brit`s chamber "Yitzhak
Yalin" in Tel Aviv.

A Presidency member of "the Action Foundation" of
"The General Zionists movement in Israel".

His Descendants: Meira (the wife of Baruch Klienmann), Zvi,
Shmuel and Ezra.

> Aaron.
He was in business with Yitzak.

> Chaya.
She was not married.

> Tova
Rubenstein, married and divorced Unknown Rubenstein They did not have any
children.

> Pnina
(Pearl) Neeman or Nieman, married Unknown Neeman/Nieman. Spelling of the name
is unsure. There is another child, other than Yitzhak.

> > Yitzhak.

There
is a Yitzhak Neeman, b. 9/15/1928, Tel Aviv, in the 1980 Who's Who in Israel,
who is presumed to be the same as this Yitzhak Neeman [Verify – what proof that
they are the same?]. The Y. Neeman (or Ne’eman) in Who’s Who is the Director of
Bronfman's Agency, Ltd., publisher of “Who's Who in Israel” since 1980!
Previously, he was with the Ministry of Defense and was also attached to the
Malawi Embassy to Israel in the late 60s. The Yitzhak Neeman, in Who’s Who is
married to Hava Sokolovsky and they have children Rachel, Erez and Ziv. In 1980
he lives in Tel Aviv. (1968 Who's Who in Israel).

Avrom Ezra, b. abt. 1882, Ros, married
in Simnas, 5/16/1907 to Sora Mirel Bialosky (Bialotsky?), b. Simnas, Alytus,
6/11/1886, probably in Simnas, d. Hola, Israel or d. in the Holocaust. [MAR105] Avrom Ezra
died young from Pneumonia. Her parents were Israel and Rakhel (Korchmar).
During WW II she was in Balbieriskis. [YAD139] He lived in
Simnas, Lithuania, which is near Alytus.

Reuben
attended the University of Vytantas the Great in Lithuania and practiced law
for five years in Kovna (Kaunes), Lithuania prior to coming to the United
States. He immigrated through Cuba [~ARR]. He entered the Atlanta Law School,
Atlanta, GA 9/14/1940 and graduated 2/3/1943 in the top of his class. While
attending Atlanta Law School he worked at the Shirley Cloak & Dress Co.,
Alabama St., Atlanta. During that time he lived at the following addresses:
223 Ramona Av., SW Atlanta; 266 Atlanta Av.; 66 Quilan St., and 28 Clark St.
Reuben practiced law in Washington, D.C. in the 1960s. Reuben worked for the
Pentagon. [cite] They did not have any children.

> Irving Effron, b.
4/10/1912 or 4/10/1914, d. 2/26/1996, Beachwood, OH, married Amalia “Mona”
Wilk. [OH deaths vol. 30593, cert 016823; SSDI637]. He came from
Sopeckin, near Grodno. He was in the jewelry business and lived in Cleveland.
He first came to the US in 1930 [~ARR]. He also arrived in the US in 1946 as
Iserie Efronas and is going to his uncle, Isadore Bialosky [ARR138]. He is buried
in the Park Synagogue cemetery in Cleveland. [OBIT--] His oral history (with
his wife) is on file at NYPL AJC Oral History Collection (not transcribed –
accessible by special permission only). For permission, contact NYPL mterry@nypl.org

In
1930 he lives with his maternal uncle, Ben Bilasky in Cleveland.

*
* * * * * * * *

The
descendants of Moshe (of the Shalom Shacne branch) may be the same as the
descendants of one Mashe Efron of Alytus, Lithuania, as per Gershon Efron:

> Abraham,
settled in Israel

> > Benjamin,
some of his children may be in the US

> > Rivka,
some of her children may be in the US

> Shacne,
settled in Capetown, South Africa

> > Gershon,
b. 3/30/1929. [~CEN20] He has 3 children. They live in Pikesville, MD. In
1973 he lives in Scarsdale, NY and then applied for citizenship.

The
people in Poughkeepsie knew of him, and Edna used his name when she went there
visiting. Yankel had a very long red beard. He was very learned. He and his
family came from the town of Narefka. Narefka (better known as Narewka Mala or
Narevka) is located 50 km ESE of Bialystok at 52/50 23/45 coordinates (WOWW).

According
to one descendent from this branch, there was once an ancestor, a woman, whose
name was Efron and she had 20 children. [INT017]

They
had nine known children:

Channa
“Ann” Brenner

Gdalia
“Joe”

Abraham

Mashe
Grune “Minnie” Leibowitz

Jennie
(Shifre) Marrus

David

Isaac

Unknown
Supraski

Yasha

Channa
“Ann” Brenner, daughter of Yankel “Der Shenker” Effron, son of Gdalia, son of
Motte Tsinne’s

Chamma
"Ann" Brenner, b. abt. 1867, d. prior to 1945, married William (Wolf)
Brenner, b. abt. 1867, d. 12/11/1945 [~CEN20; CEN3014?]. Chamma
arrived in 1904 with Esther, Victor, Sarah and Bess [ARR142], and William
arrived abt. 1899. She was the oldest daughter. They settled in Seneca Falls,
NY. All of the family came to them at one time or another. The second to
youngest child was born in Europe in 1902. 1930 census reference is not
verified and so information from there is not incorporated here.

> Esther,
b. abt. 1893. She never married. She lived with her sister Sarah and her
family. [cite]

> Sarah
Rosenblum, b. abt. 1897, Russia, d. 8/29/1979, marrried 7/13/1919 [cite] in
Syracuse to Obie Rosenblum. He was the son of Jacob and Bluma (Scrinopska).
They lived in Syracuse. Scrinopsky is (coincidentally?) the name of a Jewish
family in Topeka, where the Morris Affron branch settled (see --). Although an
unusual name, there is no known connection.

> Bess
Pierson, b. 1909, Seneca Falls, NY (Ship Arrival), marr. Charles Pierson. She
and her husband were great supporters of Israel. At one time, Golda Meir was in
the US and she stayed with them. They lived in Syracuse. They did not have any
children. His name appears to be Charles, based on a ship arrival identifying a
Bess Pierson, born in Seneca Falls.

Joe
(Gdalia) Effron, son of Yankel “Der Shenker,” son of Gdalia, son of Motte
Tsinne’s

Joe
(Gdalia), b. 11/12/1874, Svisloch, suicide 1/19/1929, married before 1904 to
Sonya (Sore) Unknown, b. Waronis (Waronisch, from ship manifest), d. 1/16/1932.
She may be the Sophia Efron in the 1930 census living at the Jewish Home
[~CEN20]. They lived in Syracuse. He was the oldest son. She (?) arrived around
1884 or 1901. He arrived on 6/18/1904 on the SS Pennsylvania. [ARR100-SD] They did not
have any children.

Avraham
Effron, son of Yankel “Der Shenker,” son of Gdalia, son of Motte Tsinne’s

Avraham,
b. approx. 1884, d. 12/24/1913 [CEM022]. His surname
may have been Heffron. He was b. abt. 1884 according to my interviews. In 1904
when his brother Gdalia arrives he then lives at 133/35 Canal St. in NYC. He
arrived in the US in 1903 from “Narovky” [Narevka] and was then going to his
brother-in-law Dino Efron, c/o E. Goldstein of 306 Delancey St., NYC [ARR143]. “Dino Efron”
and “E. Goldstein” have not been identified.

His
cousin was Schiea Friedman, who arrived in the US in 11/15/1904 and indicates
that he is going to his cousin, A. Efron, of 33 Canal St., NYC. It is not known
how this cousin is related.

Mashe
Grune "Minnie" Leibowitz, b. abt 1886, Russia, d. abt. 1969, married
abt 1909 in NYC to Israel David "Srul" Leibowitz, b. abt 1881 or
1883, Russia, d. abt. 1965, age 83 [~CEN20; CEN3017]. She arrived
around 1904 [~ARR], and he around 1905. All of their girls were college
educated. She was a tailoress.

Jennie
(Shifre) Marrus, daughter of Yankel “Der Shenker” Effron, son of Gdalia, son of
Motte Tsinne’s

The
Marrus family appears to have come from Narevka. On 9/5/1909, Hinde Marrus came
to the US and joined her brother, Isidor. With her are her mother, Liebe, and
sister Friede. Her brother, E. Marrus, is back in Narevka. The extended Marrus
family is interred at the Narevker Society section of the Mount Zion Cemetery
in New York, including an Elias, who is probably Barney’s father, and both an
Ida and a Yetta, one of whom may be his mother.

David
Effron, son of Yankel “Der Shenker,” son of Gdalia, son of Motte Tsinne’s

David
Effron, b. abt. 1890 or 1893, Narefka (Grodno), d. 8/13/1953 or 8/15/1953,
Spring Valley, NY [CEM088; ARR011; CENMISC012; CEN3018; OBIT--],
married abt. 1916 to Minnie (Mina) Haberman (EL) or Hoberman (Adlowitz?), b.
abt. 1897 or 1898 in Podulsk, d. 4/1/972 [CEM089; CEN2056] David arrived
in 1910 at NY on the "New Amsterdam". He was then single and came
from “Mariwski” or “Marenski,” Grodno, where his brother [sic?] Yankel lived,
and came to his brother-in-law Srul Leibowicz at 34 E. 3rd St. The town referenced
on his arrival is most certainly Narewka. Minnie arrived in 1906. David was
naturalized in 1917. In 1920, David is a cutter in wholesale clothing, and
they lived at 822 Trinity Ave., Bronx. He was a big union supporter. He was the
youngest. He lived in Spring Valley where he had a farm. There were Effron Cousins
club meetings at a farm in Spring Valley. At those meetings was a big picture
with all the family. [INT018] They were all
redheads. He had a store in Oradell, NJ. In 1930 Elise and Anna Hoberman,
probably her parents, lived with them. Living near the family in 1925 is the
Vlosky family, cousins (see above) [CENMISC012]

Someone
sent an email from the Efron family history website, but did not give their
name or email, and said that the mother of the David Effron of Spring Valley
family was Minnie Adlowitz. This doesn’t match up with any records except David’s
wife, though her name is believed to be Haberman or Hoberman.

Isaac
(Isadore, Yitzchak), son of Yankel “Der Shenker,” son of Gdalia, son of Motte
Tsinne’s

Isaac
(Isadore, Yitzchak), b. abt. 1892, Grodno [ARR051] or Amdur, d. abt. 1962,
married abt. 1913 to Fruma "Florence" Liniewska (Linevsky), b.
Narevka 1/10/1893, d. Syracuse, NY 7/1979 [SSDI072; ARR111; ~CEN20; CEN3015]. He arrived in
1914 and was going to his brother-in-law “B. Kones” and was discharged to his
uncle, N. ...kin at 26 Henry St. He resided in Narefka prior to immigration.
She arrived on 6/29/1920 at NYC with daughter Scheine, age 6. Fruma and Scheine
had last resided in Narefka, where her father, Abram Liniewska lives. They are
going to I. Effron, residing at 308 Mource St., (sic, should be Munroe St)
Syracuse, but he is temporarily at 1475 Longfellow Ave., NYC.

His
family tree and other family information was contributed by Batya Dashefsky [GEN032-SD; INT019]

12 Isaac and Fruma
Efron, wedding photo [verify], ca. 1913

Unknown
Supraski, daughter of Yankel “Der Shenker” Effron, son of Gdalia, son of Motte
Tsinne’s

Unknown
Supraski, married Unknown Supraski. She lived in Lodz, where she ran a store.
Edna and Bess visited her daughter after the war. [YAD?]

Her son Leizer
was a resident at Pearsall Rd., Parkridge, NJ in 1954 when he arrived in the
US with his children Yvette, Rosa, Simon, Louis & Benjamin B. [Ancestry].
He was born 9/9/1910, Lodz and had lived in Lodz. Leizer’s wife (?) Roza was
born 1921 in Lodz and Simcha (Simon) was born 10/3/1947. [YAD174]

Yasha,
daughter of Yankel “Der Shenker” Effron, son of Gdalia, son of Motte Tsinne’s

Yasha.
She was too sick to make the voyage to America. Minnie went in her place. (EL)
[YAD?]